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How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal.
"The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...
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Russian Spies Are Analyzing Data From China's WeChat App
An anonymous reader shared this report from The New York Times:
Russian counterintelligence agents are analyzing data from the popular Chinese messaging and social media app WeChat to monitor people who might be in contact with Chinese spies, according to a Russian intelligence document obtained by...
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ACLU Accuses California Local Government's Drones of 'Runaway Spying Operation'
An anonymous reader shared this report from SFGate about a lawsuit alleging a "warrantless drone surveillance program" that's "trampling residents' right to privacy":
Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a "runaway spying operation"... according to...
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AI Firms Say They Can't Respect Copyright. But A Nonprofit's Researchers Just Built a Copyright-Respecting Dataset
Is copyrighted material a requirement for training AI? asks the Washington Post. That's what top AI companies are arguing, and "Few AI developers have tried the more ethical route — until now.
"A group of more than two dozen AI researchers have found that they could build a massive eight-ter...
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Student Discovers Long-Awaited Mystery Fungus Sought By LSD's Inventor
LSD "is used to treat conditions like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction," notes Science Daily. And now a microbiology student "has found a long sought-after fungus that produces effects similar to the semisynthetic drug..."
Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi ...
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